From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

Sky-gazers are in for a treat this month as six planets are set to align in a dazzling early morning display known as a "planetary parade"—the last such spectacle of this year. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This planet parade — following on from one in the evening ...

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s quest to understand planetary systems beyond our own. According to Space.com, ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

New research has revealed the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet located about 40 light-years away. A team from the University of St Andrews has published a study on TRAPPIST-1e, ...

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...